Economics/10.Enterprise Economy

PhD Efremova L.I., Shchukina N.I.

Ogarev Mordovia State University, Russia

ENERGY-SAVING INFORMATION SUPPORT

Enhancement of energy recourses utilisation and development of the new conditions for state economy switching to the energy-saving mode of development is one of the main priorities in the energy policy of Russia. Currently Russia pays special attention to collection, analysis and storage of the information regarding energy-saving particularly at the municipal level.

The development of the information support is aimed at:

- shaping out the managerial processes, supervision and control over the proper quality and maintenance of the energy-saving with the use of the modern equipment and information technologies ensuring overall easiness and reliability of the access to the energy-saving information, to the results of the energy inspections, to the requirements and the volumes of consumption, as well as to the tariffs and charge rates on energy recourses;

- implementation of the mechanisms and technologies for information processing and analysis, supporting the relevant subdivisions personnel in their managerial decisions taking in the matters of control over the energy-saving programme.

Information support in the fields of energy-saving should involve four principle data files:

- a data file containing basic information about the institutions and organisations rates of consumption and payments for energy recourses;

- a data file indicating energy declarations of the institutions and organisations;

- a data file regarding energy inspections of the institutions and organisations;

- a data file with standard methodical documents.

Every data file may be formed with the help of the modern systems of databases control as an independent database, except the data file with standards and methodical documents which should be formed as document database. Hence it follows the electronic data store should contain documentary and factual information.

Data store of the documentary information is actualized with the application of the modern WEB-technologies and architectural decisions providing the users with distant access to the stored data.

The factual information data store is actualized with the application of the modern systems of relational databases control ensuring storage of the data in big volumes, supporting its logical and physical integrality, control, reserving, effective realisation of the information retrieval procedures according to the user's criteria and also serving the queuing requests, also it should support the procedure of the primary statistical information collection presuming the limited requirements to the hardware and software environment of the terminal users and to the communicative environment.

Information accumulated in the databases may be effectively used for analytical problems solving and for the support of the managerial decisions taking. Processing and analysis of the information regarding the energy inspections kept in the data files and databases include the following basic stages:

- processing and analysing the primary statistical data about the volumes of consumption and payments for the energy recourses;

- processing and analysing energy declarations data;

- processing and analysing the energy inspections data.

The first stage final aim is operative detection of irrational utilisation of the energy recourses and also creation of the database for forecasting the energy recourses consumption volumes and the budget funds expected to be spent on them the next financial year.

The second stage finally aims to choose organisations and institutions for the prior energy inspection.

The third stage finally aims to set directions for the energy recourses economizing and to prepare information for formulating a set of the typical energy-saving activities.

Data processing should not be interrupted by any significant temporal delays complicating the user's interactive work.

The designed information support maintenance and the users' access to the data are actualized with the use of the modern means of storage, processing and analysis of the information and support of the managerial decisions taking integrated into the specialized information and analysis system regarding the problems of energy-saving. Maintenance of the information and analysis system is performed by the specialized company.

The designed technology of the information support organization provides for keeping its operation throughout its life-time with the aim of accumulation and complex analysis of the statistical data in the fields of energy-saving which is vitally important for securing the data integrity and consistency.